Dell Inspiron 3700 Reference And Troubleshooting Manual page 83

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This chapter explains how to reinstall Dell device drivers and utilities on your Dell
computer running the Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition operating system or the
Microsoft Windows NT operating system. You may need to use this document under
the following conditions:
You are reinstalling the version of the Windows operating system that came with
your computer, and you need to reinstall the drivers and utilities that Dell
provides.
You have a new hard-disk drive and you need to install all of the system software.
Before you can store data on a hard-disk drive, you must partition and format the
drive. Then you must assign logical drive letters to the partitions you created.
To partition and format the new hard-disk drive, and then assign logical drive letters to
the partitions you created, perform the following steps.
1. Partition the hard-disk drive using the partitioning software for your particular
operating system.
When you set up the partition(s) on the hard-disk drive, set aside some disk
space for the save-to-disk suspend (S2D) partition rather than allocating the
entire hard-disk drive to your operating system. Use the following guidelines to
determine the size of the S2D partition:
If you are using Windows 98 with a 16-bit file allocation table (FAT16), leave 4
megabytes (MB) of storage space for an S2D partition. For a 32-bit file alloca-
tion table (FAT32), leave 8 MB.
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